Flashy language apps fail to teach you enough words to get by...
Meet Glossa: built on the idea that if we teach you thousands of words, you'll understand the language.
Flashy language apps fail to teach you enough words to get by...
Meet Glossa: built on the idea that if we teach you thousands of words, you'll understand the language.
Let’s be fair: Most language apps shower you with gold stars, green checkmarks, and fake milestone alerts while you forget everything you just saw. You log a 200-day streak, but you still can't read a menu abroad, follow a film, or spot basic words in the wild.
Why? Because "feeling like you’re learning" keeps you subscribed whereas (truly) learning takes grit.
And Glossa doesn't sugarcoat your progress...
- When you remember a word, your score goes up.
- When you forget, it goes down.
- You can drop from three stars back to two, or right back to one.
It isn't a punishment... it's just REALITY. When you finally earn your status in Glossa, it ACTUALLY means something.
WHY GLOSSA WORKS
• Complete Vocabulary Categories: If you're learning kitchen items, you learn the whole drawer—fork, knife, spoon, plate, cup. No weird gaps, no cherry-picking random words that never appear together in the real world.
• Adaptive Difficulty: As you improve, the quizzes get intentionally harder. You’ll face similar-looking words and tight contextual clusters... You will fail, and it will be frustrating. But when you master a word, you’ll actually know it --- not just guess it out of a multiple-choice lineup.
• Words First, Sentences Later: Skip the confusing grammar lectures. You can’t run before you can walk. Glossa focuses on building your core vocabulary until word recognition is instant, giving you the raw material you need to build real sentences later.
• Honest Gamification: We have streaks, XP, and leaderboards, but they only track what stays in your head—not just how many times you tapped an app icon. Lose your focus, and your XP goes down. If you just want cheap dopamine, go somewhere else.
• Real Retention Tracking: Every single word has a memory score tied to your performance. Struggling words show up more frequently. Mastered words disappear, then loop back later to ensure they actually stuck.
• Instant Recognition: Swipe right if it matches, left if it doesn’t. It’s fast, simple, and relentless. By removing the lag time, you stop translating back and forth in your head and start naturally recognizing the language.
FEATURES
• Swipe-based flashcards designed for rapid, high-speed practice
• Spaced repetition engine that hunts down your specific weak spots
• Complete, zero-gap vocabulary lists organized by topic
• Granular, per-word statistics tracking your true memory retention
• Strict daily streaks backed by a transparent 6-month activity graph
• Native text-to-speech pronunciation for natural audio grounding
• Competitive leaderboards built around retention, not clicks
• Dynamic difficulty scaling that pushes back as soon as you improve
Easy dopamine? Go somewhere else.
Real progress? Download Glossa.
For support: https://glossaweb.com/support
Link to the License agreement and Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's new in Glossa 1.2.0
START LEARNING WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT
• Use Glossa right away, with no sign-up needed
• A new onboarding helps you get set up, then takes you straight into your first lesson
• For languages written in another script, choose during onboarding how much help you want reading them
• Create an account whenever you like and keep all your progress, or log in to an existing account and your progress comes with you
• Sign up to join the leaderboards and keep your progress safe
LEARN THE ALPHABET OF YOUR LANGUAGE
Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Korean and Thai now have their own alphabet tab, as Greek already did.
• Tap any letter to hear it and see its details
• Long-press the speaker of a letter to hear it slowly
• Japanese: see hiragana and katakana in clear tables
• Arabic: see how each letter changes when it joins the others
• Korean: combine a consonant and a vowel to see and hear them as one syllable
• Thai: see the consonants grouped by class, and the short and long vowels side by side
IMPROVEMENTS
• Words and sentences in lessons are spoken at a speed that matches how well you know each word
• Questions in your own language are spoken at normal speed
• The bubble of your current category opens by itself when you go to the Words tab
• Lesson sounds are quieter by default, and you can still change their volume in the settings
• If Glossa can't load when it opens, you now see a message with a button to try again
• A cleaner app icon
Thank you for learning with Glossa!
Version 1.2.0
The developer, Olivier Jalbert, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Olivier Jalbert
Size
51.3 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.